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Meanings of sticky tape in English

A tape coated with an adhesive substance.

Usage of sticky tape in English
1
A second tech lifts sticky tape off of the bomb's skin.
Wired
2
It's very much like a razor blade and a bit of sticky tape.
The Guardian
3
Even sticky tape. The camera zeroed in on the green surface.
Ancient shores
4
So it was with hoover and vacuum cleaning, or sellotape and sticky tape.
The Irish Times
5
Blaze's half-mended cracks glittered under sticky tape in a stray ray of sun.
Shadowglass: the shadowfae chronicles
6
Blue Peter used to refer to Sellotape as ' sticky tape'.
The Guardian
7
The usual crap: rubber bands, business cards, sticky tape, envelopes.
The last testament
8
They try and sticky tape it up so you can go out and perform.
The Guardian
9
The sections were fastened into place with sticky tape.
Wired
10
I grab a butter knife from the drawer and wedge it beneath the sticky tape.
Pivot Point
11
The sling seemed to wrap him like sticky tape.
Provenance
12
Robin, rapidly and furtively, dreading Duffie coming, wrapped black sticky tape around the telephone wire.
Dogsbody
13
He rummaged through the documents and handed me a thick sheaf of papers bound by sticky tape.
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair
14
Strange, on the right headlight Mischkey had stuck black sticky tape in the shape of a cross.
Self's punishment
15
If not, clear sticky tape -or that pesky role of brown packaging tape -will work too.
The South African
16
All you need is a television set, an extension lead, a flattened cardboard box and some sticky tape.
The Guardian
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Sticky tape through the time
Sticky tape across language varieties
United Kingdom
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